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PCI Academy-Ames

309 Kitty Hawk Dr., Ames, IA 50010 · Private for-profit 2-year · (515) 337-2907 · School website

Average net price

$20,533

per year after grants, College Scorecard

Career completions

121

2023-24, IPEDS

Finish on time

76.6%

within 150% of normal time, Scorecard

Students with Pell

34.1%

share of undergraduates, Scorecard

Takes federal student aid (IPEDS) Accreditor on file: National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences Yellow Ribbon school (IPEDS) Open admission (IPEDS) On Iowa's WIOA eligible training provider list (DOL file dated June 30, 2025)

Career programs at PCI Academy-Ames

PCI Academy-Ames reported 121 certificate and associate completions in 3 of the program types we track for 2023-24, most of them in esthetician (73). College Scorecard counts 176 undergraduates.

Program	Award	Length	Program cost	Completions	Earnings, 1 yr	Funding and results
Esthetician	Certificate	600 clock hours, 7 months	$14,988	73	Not published	WIOA list
Cosmetology	Certificate	1,550 clock hours, 11 months	$25,988	43	Not published	WIOA list
Massage therapy	Certificate	600 clock hours, 7 months	$14,388	5	$26,872	WIOA list

Program cost is the whole-program tuition and fees a clock-hour school reports to IPEDS for its largest programs (2024-25). Earnings are College Scorecard medians for graduates of this school in that field, one year after completing; small cohorts are not published. WIOA list means the program appears on the state's eligible training provider list in the U.S. Department of Labor file (programs listed as of June 30, 2025).

Cost and aid at PCI Academy-Ames

What a year costs, 2024-25

Average net price after grantsCollege Scorecard, students with federal aid: $20,533
Median federal debt at graduationCollege Scorecard, all programs: $5,828
Median earnings 10 years after entryCollege Scorecard, all students: $31,330

Clock-hour schools charge by program, not by year: see each program's own page for its whole-program cost.

PCI Academy-Ames net price calculator (link from IPEDS)
Financial aid office page (link from IPEDS)
Veterans and military page (link from IPEDS)

How training gets paid for: Pell Grants, Workforce Pell, WIOA, GI Bill.

Other esthetician programs within 40 miles

La James International College-JohnstonJohnston, IA · 24.1 mi · $11,560
Iowa School of Beauty-Des MoinesDes Moines, IA · 26.3 mi · $9,072
Aveda Institute-Des MoinesWest Des Moines, IA · 31.6 mi · $10,800

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